P.S. this is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long while. Viva la Revolution!

Thanks for your comment, but I do not think that you have understood what I was trying to tell here.

Firstly, the situation that the film depicts has nothing to do with the WWII. In fact, there is no war nor occupation by foreign powers or countries as happened in France with the Nazis.

Secondly, the problem is the legitimate power and the Fascists Government that the film describes. You know, Spain was a fascist government during Franco’s dictatorship and normally foreigners tend to call ETA as “freedom fighters”. Well, in my case, I just cannot think them as such just because when Democracy came they did not stop the terrorists attacks, what is more they began a great campaign of more hurtful attacks and when the international community should have helped Spanish, it did nothing and in some cases, such as France, it directly supported -although unofficially- the Basque terrorists. In Spain, the south of France was called “ETA sanctuary”, till mid-90’s.

But I am in this case critisizing more the depiction that the Pro-terrorist smelling that the film itself has: I mean, we have seen the case of Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan -and it’s not the same- where it was a Muslim converted to Christianity the one who has been nearly killed because of his religion. What is more, in Iran and Saudi Arabis, homosexuals are killed JUST NOW just because of being homosexuals.

What is more, I find particularly offensive that they are using the most important symbol of Christianity -the Cross- as a political symbol of a Fascist Government. If some people have seen as normal the terrible consequences of the Mohammed Cartoons, why they are so understanding with people who insult Christians? -and I say Christians, because this is insulting for ALL Christians-. And of course it has the necessary tone of anti-Americanism because USA is just in the middle of a Civil War. It just has all the Leftist topics: America is a mess, Christianity is rubbish and Muslims are peaceful and respect the human rights -when the only coutnries in the world who have specially designed human rights for their religion are Muslim, in which they maintain that Sharia is superior to any other law-.

You know, I think the problem is that the fantasies of some people has nothing to do with reality but are depicted as a very good analysis of it. I think this film is a little bit as Syriana, because how many Muslim head of State have been killed by Western services? Hmm, NONE.

Lastly, the own end of the film, when they explode the British Parliament is more that a symbol. Britain is the place where Democracy was born. So you would say: well, in the film is a fascist state. And I ask you: weren’t there any other solution to end up Fascism than to blow up the Parliament? And it’s also amazing that the author of the novel has complained about the BAD film they have done with it. In fact in the novel V is a foolish type, that is, a person with a mental illnes while here is just a “freedom fighter”. Oh, for me, Gandhi or Pope John Paul II are a freedom fighter. People who fight for individual and social freedom with their heart and soul, but with no violence.

It’s curious that the fil is located in Britain, though. A country where people shouting “behead people who insult Islam” where not directly detained -in fact, they were detained several weeks after and not all of them-. And a Muslim carriyng some of the Mohammed cartoons was detained directly in a demonstration for the freedom of expression…

Normal people -in Spain at least are not going to search for a subtle meaning, they are just going to see the film and to see Christians as the bad people and Muslims as the victims. With the consequences that that thing could have.

By the way, ALL religious dictatorships are just basically the same. The problem is that while the Koram states VERY clearly the notes for a Global Califate, in the rest of religions it’s very hard to find something similar. And that is a real difference that it’s not well explained in the movie.